Ann Davison: Courage and Grace in the Face of Adversity
A slideshow overview of a remarkable life
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Many thanks to Karen Gale for her time and care in crafting this history.
Many thanks to Karen Gale for her time and care in crafting this history.
Ann Davison: Solo Transatlantic on Felicity Ann
Written by Charles Doane ~ First published in SAIL magazine
Cast into the past to find the founding figure of bluewater feminism, the first in the line that leads to such modern-day heroines as Isabelle Autissier, Ellen MacArthur, and Samantha Davies, and you bump up hard against a woman named Ann Davison.
She is remembered today, when she is remembered at all, as the first woman to sail solo across the Atlantic. She is also something of an enigma, wrapped up in a few ironies. Chief among these being the fact that she probably never would have gone to sea in the first place had she not fallen in love with a sailor. [READ THE FULL ARTICLE.]
Used here by permission of the author.
She is remembered today, when she is remembered at all, as the first woman to sail solo across the Atlantic. She is also something of an enigma, wrapped up in a few ironies. Chief among these being the fact that she probably never would have gone to sea in the first place had she not fallen in love with a sailor. [READ THE FULL ARTICLE.]
Used here by permission of the author.
Ann Davison aboard Felicity Ann in the United States, near the conclusion of her 1952-53 solo transatlantic crossing.